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Regaining Your Financial Balance As A Single Parent

Poets have compared the end of love to the end of the world or to an earthslide. And indeed, the break up of a relationship can be a terrifying experience: From psychological stress and feelings of rejection to uprooting your children, neither your life nor that of your family will ever quite be the same [...]

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How to Win in the Ultimate Parenting ‘Survivor Episode’ of Toddler Tantrums

In the reality show Survivor, competing individuals strategize and plan their next moves. They would do basically anything and everything to outwit, outplay, and outlast their competitors. On the homefront, parents face a very similar challenge – and that is when they have to handle toddler tantrums. Tantrums are usually characterized by sudden outbursts of [...]

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Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Geocaching

If you have children at home who seem hopelessly attached to their laptops and cell phones, or you want to do something different, geocaching may become you or your family’s next popular hobby. The only requirements of this treasure-hunting activity are a GPS and your sense of adventure, which makes it an affordable and fun [...]

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Your Home – 10 Tips on Creating a Cool Kids Hangout

Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children. ~Marilyn Penland Our home is the coolest house on the block according to the neighborhood kids, but it wasn’t always the case. My two children, who are now 8 and 6 years old, used to be so embarrassed by it. My [...]

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Do Kids Really Have to Have Phones?

We have all heard the stories: when I was a kid, I left the house and played outside for hours; my parents had no idea where I was.  Yes, we answer, but that was then and this is now.  Now means that every parent has to know at every moment where his child is and [...]

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